{"id":1796,"date":"2017-09-06T21:26:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T21:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:23:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:23:55","slug":"mims-the-word-for-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2017\/09\/06\/mims-the-word-for-families\/","title":{"rendered":"MIM’s the Word for Families"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems to be all in the family for one of the Craig School of Business\u2019s graduate degrees. In the Masters in Information Management \u2013 Enterprise Resource Planning program, a pair of brothers recently graduated and a husband-and-wife team are currently enrolled.<\/p>\n

For Denice \u201914 and Tyson \u201914 Hector, enrolling in one of Missouri Western\u2019s programs was nothing new.<\/p>\n

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Denice ’14 and Tyson ’14 Hector<\/p><\/div>\n

The two had both earned some college credits from Missouri Western right out of high school, and had always wanted to finish. So they enrolled together as nontraditional students in 2006. They worked full-time and attended college part-time, earning their bachelor\u2019s degrees in 2014 \u2013 she in marketing and he in economics.<\/p>\n

Denice, who has worked at the Belt Sports Complex since 1999, said Dr. Peggy Lane, former director of the MIM-ERP program, spoke about the program in one of Denice\u2019s business classes shortly before she graduated.<\/p>\n

Tyson, who has worked at Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. in St. Joseph for 11 years, said BIVI uses enterprise resource planning software so he was interested in the master\u2019s program, which uses SAP.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was a good opportunity to learn more,\u201d he said. \u201cThe graduate program has given me an understanding of how everything is tied together and how to implement it. Knowing the background of SAP has been beneficial.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the first class they took together, Project Management, Dr. Lane had them work in separate groups, but they were on the same team in their second course.<\/p>\n

Although they said the dual schooling hasn\u2019t put a strain on their relationship, it has been a \u201cbalancing act\u201d between work, school and home, which includes 6 year-old twin boys. \u00a0Last semester, Denice had night classes on Monday and Thursday, and Tyson on Wednesdays. \u201cWe do the shuffle,\u201d Denice said with a laugh.<\/p>\n

Denice passed the SAP certification test this past summer and will graduate in December. She is thinking about continuing on to earn an MBA, which Missouri Western began offering this fall. She would only need to take five more classes to earn the second master\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n

Tyson hasn\u2019t taken courses every semester, so he has three more semesters to go. \u201cBut I don\u2019t stop something once I start it.\u201d<\/p>\n

And just to keep up the family tradition, daughter Madison is currently working on her undergraduate degree at Missouri Western.<\/p>\n

Marcus Sutton \u201913\/\u201915 began the MIM-ERP program immediately after graduating from Missouri<\/p>\n

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Marcus Sutton ’13\/’15<\/p><\/div>\n

Western with an undergraduate degree in political science. He earned his master\u2019s in December 2015. His brother, Michael \u201916, who is two years older than Marcus, graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2011 and earned a graduate degree from Missouri Western a year after his brother.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always wanted to get my master\u2019s,\u201d Michael said, \u201cand my brother recommended this program.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Michael Sutton ’16<\/p><\/div>\n

The Suttons, who grew up in St. Joseph, Missouri, just had a couple of MIM courses together in Michael\u2019s first year, but Michael said he appreciated that his brother was a good resource for information when he first started the program.<\/p>\n

Both were pleased with the education they received.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe professors were second to none. They were experts in their fields,\u201d Marcus said.<\/p>\n

Marcus began working for Cerner in Kansas City, Missouri as a solutions analyst a few months after he graduated with his master\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Michael believes the graduate degree helped him gain a lot more job interviews after graduating, and, in what seemed to be a perfectly natural next step, he was hired by Cerner and began working there this past summer.<\/p>\n

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